03-11-2015, 12:39 PM
Quote:so please fulminate away.
Well then... I've made my objection to this idea several times, so I won't repeat myself. Basically it's a straw man argument, a deliberately absurd exaggeration designed to make the opposing views appear ridiculous, and your own sensible by comparison...
But you're right, of course, that there's plenty we don't know about this whole affair - plenty of known unknowns, to use a Rumsfeldism. As Renatus pointed out some time ago, though, we only have the texts to go on - once we start ignoring bits of them and making up our own stories about what happened, we're completely up in the air...
Quote:don't tell me you forgot?
Ah yes... :whistle:
Quote:there may be some mileage in debating the old chestnut
Some chestnut, as they say...
Nathan Ross